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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

FLICKER STREET Treatment # 7 - Interstice

This treatment was quite an undertaking. Juggling dozens of characters and plot threads from prior installments led to a rather larger than intended interstice. Still, I think it's successfully wrapped up a first phase, if you will, and subsequent installments should find the world of Flicker Street much easier to digest after these seven initial segments. At least, that's my intention. Enjoy! FLICKER STREET Treatment # 7
– Interstice

I. Kanabal Reborn

Gerhardt Vossius had used
Kirsten Roeg in 1949 to attempt freedom and for his own amorous
needs. He soon rejected her and their daughter Jennifer however. In
1959 the one-legged unrepentant cannibal killer began corresponding
with a former teammate from the Silent Seven who'd also fallen far
down on her luck – Felicia McGee. The once stunning, kick ass
crimefighter Crimson Velvet had become a stripper, then a prostitute,
and, at the age of 40, a stag film actress. She formed a sick
attachment to the erstwhile Captain Caliban.

At this point, Gerhardt had
had years to formulate a plan to gain revenge on his many enemies.
Gerhardt once again took advantage of his extremely liberal warden,
Mallard, as he had when he engaged in conjugal visits with Kirsten.
He and Felicia conjugated several times while Vossius was
incarcerated. This led to the 1961 birth of twins Gareb and Luana
Vossius.

The final straw was when
Kanabal escaped from prison in 1962. This was engineered by Kong, who
wished to play Vossius and Ewen Cromwell against each other and
eliminate several of their common enemies at once. Kong put up
Vossius in a filthy hotel, where he began murdering whores and
vagrants and consuming their flesh. His leg grew back, and he grew
incredibly strong and youthful looking for his age (then 58).

Kanabal and Carnifex, under
Kong's direction, put together a plan to wipe out the Silent Seven
(all still alive, save honorary member Sorrow), as well as Dawn,
Zachariah, and all of her Clancy children (Gerhardt insisted he get
to know his son Solomon). Felicia feared for her life, and that of
her babies. She resolved to go to Vance Orlison and Gadgeteer V for
help. Before she could act, Carnifex broke into the Clancys' home at
night and butchered Zachariah in front of Dawn and their five
children – though he flashed a large smile at 15 year old Solomon
Vossius. Solomon smiled back shockingly by all accounts. And then
Cromwell took the eldest boy with him. “Your hate can take a most
wondrous shape, tainted blood of my blood”. As per Kong's orders,
Solomon was reunited with his father.

After Felicia's justifiably
hysterical warning, Vance conferred with Cary Bradcroft AKA The
Shadow Baron, while Richter, Sword, and Bradcroft's young charge
Brandon ver Dorn (b, 1937), also known as the Snow Archer (for
reasons that will be made clear in a future treatment), teamed to
rescue Solomon. Months went by, and in 1963, the reluctant allies
Carnifex and Kanabal drew further blood. Vance had been on their
trail for some time and one night the two rogues smashed into his
stately manor. Before Vance could react, Carnifex had dug his blade
deeply into Doc's heart and out the other side. Solomon was again an
accomplice; the sanguinary partners were encouraging the younger
Vossius to follow in their blood-caked footsteps. By this point,
Solomon was already imploring Ewen to train him in all his fighting
skills.

II. The Gauntlet Passed

Dr. Vance Ewen Orlison was
given a heroic funeral; it was densely attended and an extremely
emotional event. “Doc Vance” was considered America's greatest
hero and he was showered in accolades and tears. One man that
attended, the Brit Cary Ashton Bradcroft, the Shadow Baron, owner of
an extremely eccentric curio shoppe on Flicker Street, decided that
enough was indeed enough. SkullCorp had to be destroyed. Cary and his
undead twin Ashton Cary Bradcroft, now known only as Nocturno, took
their long fulminating plans into fruition. As Cary made his way to
their manor to map out the brothers' plans, he was accosted by a
stocky sideburned man in a bomber jacket. He introduced himself as
Captain Thomas Christopher Ledge, a Korean War veteran recently
recruited by the government group REACT. After a fog of doubletalk
emanated from the cocky Capt. Ledge, Cary broke in and pointed out
that the funeral of such a venerated figure as Vance Orlison might
not be the right place or time for “official business”. Ledge
answered, “I was hoping for something more casual myself... maybe
I'm outta line. But lemme share two things, Mr. Bradcroft... first,
not everyone in the upper echelons believed “Doc Vance” was the
good little soldier boy you do... an' two: you're on our list. High.
Good day... we'll be meeting again soon I'm sure”.

A brief digression: Thomas
Christopher Ledge was born on April 13, 1929, and was the first-born
son of the man born Kaosong Qua and variously known as Caine Ledge,
Bromley Chamberlaine, Mr. Drang, and others... but self-identified as
... Kong the Claimer. Thomas Ledge is a key player in our account as
future segments will make clear.

In March 1964 (under the
sign of Pisces interestingly), the Aggregate was formed. It was
funded by the Bradcroft Foundation (established 1960) and was
composed at first of surviving, active members of the Silent Seven,
as well as the Shadow Baron, his semi-undead brother Nocturno,
Ursulin, the Snow Archer, and the mysterious Dr. E. who was clad head
to toe in a gold metallic form-fitting armor of sorts. Sword,
Richter, Gadgeteer V, the Kraken, Anton Gamble and Bram Vallard in
his Saturnine ID (he claimed madly that the Apparition was busy on
missions in the Far East) rounded out the team. Sidonie Vossius,
retired as the Duellist, ran Vossius Metalwerks with Andreas, and
they had made the shift in the company's emphasis from munitions to
appliances since their father's death in 1953. The Korean War was the
last war Vossius supplied hardware to.

The Aggregate was the
Bradcroft brothers' attempt to consolidate and expand Vance's basic
concept for the Silent Seven but instead of a small unit of
loose-knit vigilantes, the Aggregate was conceived as a larger
umbrella outfit, a haven of sorts, for any specially-talented
individuals who could be coerced into attacking Skull's power-mad
agenda. The eleven founding members were in accord with this
objective. While imprisoned by the Obscuros sect and tortured in
Exodesia, Cary Bradcroft had an epiphany about such a group.

III. Prodigies

Before any further
discussion of the Aggregate, we must trip a small bit back in time to
the heyday of Phileas Caleb's vaunted “Operation: Outreach”
program for SkullCorp. We have briefly lit on this brightly-monikered
operation previously, but three key individuals “discovered” by
Caleb as part of this program figure extensively in the early
Aggregate saga.

The foremost of these was
Evan Eloy Queeg, pegged by Caleb as the “first known
Native-American physicist”. Under the direction of Caleb and Donal
Rykards, Queeg was immediately put to work on the new Omegan tech
brought by Ursulin. Queeg's personal philosophies and theories, which
tended to meld quantum physics and Native spirituality, were right in
tune with Omegan (and Piscean) transcendental philosophies. He had
the strongest grasp of Omegan tech of any human outside of Caleb.
Rykards' interest in Queeg's genius marked him as the first human
trial of trans-morphic somatics. Rykards engineered a secret test,
unknown to Kong, to bombard Queeg's mind (even more brilliant than
his own) with the energies later dubbed TSD. This was in 1956, before
the trials were perfected such as the 1963 trial undergone by Orphee
deLander. The result? “Dr. E” as his students called him, died in
a tremendous explosion at the SkullCorp Advanced Sciences Institute
building in Augensburg MA. The entire institute was destroyed,
costing Skull valuable research and employee's lives (though the
latter mattered less to them).

Rykards was sent away to
study the alien tech in Asia as his “punishment”. Kong hated him,
but felt him too valuable to sanction. Rykards returned in 1963. In
Hallmark, the Bradcroft twins' cousin Paige Bradcroft was reeling.
She had become emotionally involved with Queeg, and was pregnant with
his child, but this didn't deter Skull's Artemus Thorne, who lusted
for her himself but who magnanimously “gave” her to Smith
Fabricand's son John Paul Fabricand. Paige and John Paul were wed
under duress. Nocturno, an avowed foe of the late Smith Fabricand,
swore John Paul would pay for sullying his cousin.

Ursulin, often derisively
called “Captain Omega”, returned to Earth in late 1954 and found
his mother Shun Ti at Feng Qi in China (His father Friedrich
Einnhauser was deceased by this time). He stayed with her for a time in
secrecy, unknown to the likes of Kith and Carnifex. In 1955, she sent
him to find his twin brother, whom he'd never met, Anaximander-Zayan.
Zayan was a drifter, who took a variety of human disguises throughout his long life. Posing as a beatnik named Joel E. Moss, he was overjoyed
to meet his brother. The two became very close, and Ursulin managed
to find work and infiltrate human life in the American South.

The problem Kong and co. had
in 1956 was that they needed Ursulin's help in figuring out what
really happened at the Institute to Dr. E. Paige's child was born
late in the year and was named Kyle Fabricand. Artemus Thorne
murdered John Paul soon thereafter and declared Paige his. He raped
her, and she shamefully married him. Their son Calvin Artemus “Cal”
Thorne was born in 1957.

The brothers Thorne
attempted, with Caleb's help, to find the “rabbit hole” Ursulin's
Pod had vanished into to seek his help. They found a brilliant young
scientist, a prodigy, named Emerson Trent (born in 1937) – who
possessed Dr. E's brilliance at assimilating Ursulin's tech with
Caleb's help. Trent grew up in a shantytown in Kingston, Jamaica; he
was a brilliant scientist, kidnapped and forced to work for SkullCorp
before being “rescued” (i.e. kidnapped again, as he saw it) by
the Aggregate in 1965. Trent had been told his family was dead, and
resigned to toil for good with the Bradcroft Foundation. Trent's
family had also been told that Emerson had perished. Phileas Caleb
orchestrated these deceptions. Trent's half-brother Euphrates
Aquinas Straw was born in 1940, and was brought from Jamaica as
assistant to Trent. Straw was not only brilliant scientifically
(though not on the level of Trent), he possessed many skills,
especially in the martial arts. He was a true polymath. He was
captured and tested (and tortured) by SkullCorp in the mid-60s. It
was hoped by SkullCorp that Straw not survive his ordeal, but it
actually enhanced his already formidable skills. He joined the
Aggregate officially after this, and became a key member for years,
as was his brother.

Trent, Straw, Ursulin, and
Nocturno sought out the vigilante, Snow Archer, in 1961, and soon
discovered he was the well-off and highly intelligent Brandon ver
Dorn. Archer was the first to encounter a reconstituted Queeg, now
composed entirely of explosive plasma energy, who was saved by Trent.
Trent would do all he could for the explosive being that had been
Evan Eloy Queeg. Ver Dorn, in helping Queeg cope with his lost
humanity, made a lifelong friend of the man called Dr. E.

Though the Aggregate was a
secret and closed group from its 1964 foundation, Orphee deLander aka
The Absurd Tentacle learned of it and often was invited to join but
refused unless he could be the leader. The Bradcroft's group then
acquired the brawler, genetically enhanced by his relations to Kong,
named Thomas Ledge, in 1967. Ledge, as stated previously, was a
Korean War veteran and an agent of REACT. He was “assigned” to
the Aggregate, and the Bradcrofts tolerated his presence, feeding
Ledge reams of mis- and disinformation.

In future treatments members
inducted in the late 1960s who do not figure in the mission detailed
in Part V such as recombinants Wurm (Benjamin “Ben” Renova),
Princesa Verde, Heironymous (Dahlia Mueller), and Gullivar (Enos
McClegg) will be covered at length.

IV. The Earth Mother
Revisited

Zachariah Clancy's hatred
and jealousy of the brothers Stenbrau (Anton Gamble and the Kraken)
had lead to his downfall. He had gone to work for SkullCorp where he
felt he could make a real difference, but he inadvertently learned
that Anton Gamble's warnings were not in vain. He vowed to go public
with his discoveries. Kong brought in Carnifex to assassinate Clancy,
which was Ewen's plan all along anyway. Ewen hardly minded taking the
rap as his hatred of the Vossiuses was legend by now. After Cromwell
slew Clancy, Dawn was threatened by her grandsire that she was next
and should live in fear til the day came. And then Carnifex and
Kanabal took the 15 (going on 16) year old Solomon Vossius and fled,
leaving Dawn, trained from birth to take care of herself, feeling
more helpless than ever. At least her other four children were
unharmed – physically anyway. They all vowed that night that
Cromwell, Vossius, and their own brother would pay.

The Kraken, Sword, and the
recent Hallmark-based vigilante Snow Archer (to be explored in future
segments) combined forces to protect Dawn and her family, at Anton
Gamble's and Cary Bradcroft's behest. This was part of an effort on
the Shadow Baron's part to forge a new, stronger team in the wake of
the Silent Seven – a team which he called the Aggregate .

One of Cary's team took a
drastic step in protecting Dawn – Eryk Stenbrau. The Kraken had
been falling deeper and deeper in love with her over the years, and,
placing the Clancy children under the care of Andreas and Sidonie, he
kidnapped Dawn. He was indeed doing this for her ultimate protection,
but no doubt hoped he could mend her broken heart. She thought him a
fool, and by defeating him in combat, proved she could take care of
herself.”But I'm taking care of your whole family. Vance and Cary
will get Solomon back.” Dawn thought Eryk naïve; she knew that
Solomon was simply wishing to follow in his father's reprobate
footsteps. “He belongs with his father; he always has. A mother
knows these things”.

But true to form in such
fantastic situations, Dawn grew more attracted to Eryk, and she made
love with him in order to escape. But she had never really loved one
man – she used Gerhardt, used Clancy for status (though she deeply
cared for her family with them), and was now using Eryk's love for
her to escape. And it worked. But, she realized, there was one man
she had come to have genuine feelings for – Eryk's brother, Anton
Gamble.

Dawn escaped, and Kraken
followed. She found shelter with an old friend of the Clancys –
Antoine Grimadi, a bi-racial Italian businessman. She knew she was
pregnant with the Kraken's child and when she gave bith, she left the
child with Antoine and his wife Chloe. They raised him as their own,
Germaine Grimaldi, though Dawn had initially named him Luther
Stenbrau. The Kraken tearfully searched for the pregnant Dawn,
rendezvousing with his partner Ian Rhys McGregor. But Ewen Cromwell
had found them first, and swiftly dispatched them both. He fed their
grisly remains to Gerhardt Vossius, who allowed his now 17 year old
son to look on as he feasted on his well-cooked repast.

Dawn found Anton Gamble in
France in 1965 and suggest they begin a romance. She took him
completely off-guard. He was the man she's been looking for all these
years, she finally realized. Or was she deluding herself, and
becoming ever the amoral opportunist? Did Ewen Cromwell's blood run a
bit thicker in her veins than she would've liked? Regardless, she
still deserved none of the horrific incidences visited upon her by
her grandfather and by her first husband.

Anton and Dawn moved to
Germany, where Anton reverted to his natal name Jakob Stenbrau,and
the two were soon married in Berlin in 1967. They moved into Chateau
Noir (“which they nicknamed Chateau Stenbrau”) , formerly
Richter's German HQ but now considered abandoned,a ruin. Richter
promised the Stenbraus that he would keep them informed of their
enemies – and friends' – whereabouts though they were technically
on the lam. On June 23, 1968, their son, Deric, was born . Gamble/
Stenbrau quit the Aggregate, and was overjoyed, feeling that nothing
and no one could shatter their happiness. He was deluded.

In 1970, Kanabal and
Carnifex, under Kong's direction, ferreted out the Stenbraus. It
seems that Cary Bradcroft did indeed learn where they were (from
Richter) and he and Nocturno cast a protective spell so they'd not be
found. The Avrils and the Fabricands, supervised by Kong himself,
broke the spell. By this time the 23 year old Solomon Vossius was
undertaking missions with Cromwell and Gerhardt and, encased in a
bizarre S & M outfit – an armor/ latex combo, now called
himself the Tormenter and had acquired a penchant not just for
cannibalism, but rape, torture, and necrophilia. Gerhardt was proud.

V. Noir Holocaust

The three perverse banes of
the Stenbraus' existence arrived in May 1970 at the Chateau Noir.
Unfortunately for them, the Bradcrofts sent in a contingent of
Aggregate agents to put a permanent stop to the aforementioned banes.
Carnifex and the Vossiuses planned a swift bloody strike but
unfortunately for them, the Aggregate planned the same.

Carnifex and co. carved
their way into the chateau, but the Stenbraus stood their ground.
They'd been warned mystically by Nocturno, and so gave their child to
their friends the Grimaldis to take care of. The Tormenter jumped the
gun on the raid and leapt onto Dawn, who sent him hurling into a
wall. Kanabal approached Jakob, who he tossed out the first floor
window brutally. That was to be the last anyone saw of Anton Gamble.
Suddenly the roof caved in, courtesy of Thomas Ledge. Ledge pounced
onto Kanabal and then pitched the cannibal through a nearby window,
bellowing, “And you pansies gave the Silent Seven so much trouble?
Whatta joke!”

A volley of arrows
penetrated Carnifex's armor but caused him little pain. Ursulin and
Richter appeared on two sides of the hallway. Both fired their
weapons; Ursulin's maser causing Ewen far more pain. He blindingly
hacked Ursulin's right arm off, ceasing his fire. Saturnine appeared
beside his brother and fired several rounds at Cromwell, who simply
leapt forward and skewered the madman on his blade. Or so it
appeared. “James!!” screamed Richter, who hefted a grenade at
Carnifex point blank and ducked for cover. The explosion rattled
Cromwell, who was then dealt a harsh blow to the kidney by Thomas
Ledge.

The Tormenter picked up
Cromwell's heavy blade and hacked at Gadgeteer V. Euphrates Straw
disarmed the young sadist and then knocked Solomon down with several
kung fu moves. Straw helped up Andreas, who was bleeding profusely.
Kanabal came up behind the two like some feral beast, ripped off
Andreas' right arm, and began savagely beating Straw with it. Poised
above a prostrate Straw, Kanabal prepared to do in the young
polymath. But Straw leapt up and kicked him into a back snapping
punch from Ledge. Their personal politics aside, Ledge and Straw made
a superlative fighting team.

When Kanabal rose, Dr. E was
standing before him. While Solomon skewered Andreas Vossius to death
with his own electro-rod, Kanabal clawed at Dr. E's sleek protective
armor, getting closer to its inner layers until E finally cocked his
fist back and planted it square inside Vossius' mouth – snapping
off his teeth (fangs really at this point), rupturing his jaw, and,
with an explosive plasma burst, blasting Gerhardt's skull apart into
so many discreet fragments. Dawn, lying in the corner, smiled, and
tried to get up and over to E for protection when Cromwell
sidestepped her, sword in hand. She attempted to fight him but he
snapped her neck in one stroke. Ewen's lovely, vivacious
granddaughter fell to the ground, her life snuffed by Carnifex.

Where was Anton Gamble in
all this? Several wondered. Saturnine was missing as well, and
Richter raced off to find them. Snow Archer faced down Tormenter,
with Ledge behind him. Straw was mending Ursulin's arm. Brandon ver
Dorn and Solomon Vossius faced off in a brief but tense martial arts
exchange. Ver Dorn clearly had the fighting advantage as Solomon was
still in training. Ledge grabbed Vossius, and screamed, “Hey rough
trade … you think you got what it takes? Fuck YOU!!” and slammed
his spike-helmeted head so hard into the nearest wall Vossius went
out cold. Ledge was then pummeled into the next room by the far
stronger Carnifex.

Cromwell turned, and the
wounded Tressilian brothers bombarded him with gunfire. Suddenly an
exploding titanium arrow hit Cromwell square in the mid-spine. As it
exploded, it crunched fragments of Cromwell's spine along with his
armor, mail, muscle and flesh. A fine spray of blood arched through
the air. Dr. E walked up to the faltering Cromwell, and, touching him
on the shoulder, ignited a propulsive explosion that sent Carnifex
into a fit of finest agony as he caught fire, exploded, and went
sailing through the front door, his left leg and right arm snapping
off from the force of the detonation.

He crawled away, bathed in
flame, and Ledge said, “I know he can heal an' all... so where do
you put these creeps when you're done playin' footsie with 'em? If
they survive that is....”“We're... working on
that”, said Ursulin. “Let's take the two with us... I've an idea
you'll quite like, Thomas”. “What about you, buddy?
That arm...”“It's... painful, but it
will soon regenerate. All of the regenerative powers found in those
such as Cromwell can be traced, via Exodesia, to Omegan and Piscean
sciences. We are natural regeneraters. “What about Gamble?”
asked Straw. “Did you find him, Richter?”“Non”, said Richter,
“He's completely disappeared. I can't imagine what could have
happened”.“Tell you what happened”,
interjected Thomas, “Fuckin' coward's what he was. His wife and gay
buddy are over here dead – where's he?? Hell, his frickin'
arch-enemy got his head blown clean apart – good work, E – an'
“Mister Existentialism” is nowhere - ““Enough, you foul
bastard,” came the icy tones of Saturnine, who emerged from the
shadows as if from limbo. “Jakob Stenbrau is – was? - more of a
man than you'll ever be with your ludicrous posturing”.“Head case chimes in. Duly
noted”, tossed off Ledge as he lit a cigar.Straw said, “You are one
cold motherfucker, Ledge – but in a fight you got my grudging
respect”.“Cause I had your back,
boy - ““Boy???”“ - an' you mine. Seen a
little combat, you'd know whereof I speak. But you're A-OK with me
Straw.”“I'm so fucking honored,
bigshot – os should I say 'bigot'?”.

Ver Dorn, weary of the
exchange, said, “With real leadership – no offense Richter –
this could've been a win-win for us. But we took casualtie. Hard.
Just like when Ian and Eryk bought it. Andreas Gerhardt and this
poor, poor woman, Dawn – they didn't deserve to die. So let's get
their bodies – and these two prisoners – outside. Trent is
rendezvousing in the jet with us – any minute.”Richter said, “I'm staying
behind, as is my brother. Effective now, we're out of the Aggregate.
For our own reasons. And we would appreciate it if you'd let the
world think Anton Gamble perished today.”“In a way, with Dawn's
death, I'm sure he did”, said ver Dorn. “I think we can all
relate”, said Ursulin. “Even Thomas Ledge”, he smiled.

Trent's jet soon touched
down. The deceased and the still unconscious prisoners were all
strapped down. “Been thinkin'” said Ledge as they took off on the
long flight to Hallmark.“Yeah”, laughed
Euphrates, “ That must've been a hell of a struggle”.“It was, “mon”. I was
thinkin' we should have a set of permanent holding cells for these
assholes when we bag 'em. ““Hardly a new idea among
this group”, Straw cynically replied.“Yeah – but we should
call it – the Compound”.Ver Dorn said, “I like
it.”

Back at the chateau, the
brothers Tressilian tended to an old friend, badly wounded, and
awaited medical aid. Their friend began sobbing uncontrollably, “Dawn
– Dawn – I couldn't even save her..”Richter leaned over his
uncontrollably lachrymose friend, “It's alright, mon ami. The
struggles of Jakob Stenbrau and of Anton Gamble are over. But though
you will soon be a new man, the wounds of past lives will pain you
for some time”, said Richter tenderly to his old comrade.“We're going to invent a
whole new ID for you old friend”, said James, “I came up with the
the name Jason Barlowe. Thoughts?”“I like it”, sobbed
Gamble, “I think I'd like to be a chef. That I haven' done - ““And just think”,
declared a very animated Saturnine : “'Dead at 52: Anton Gamble,
visionary author of “Distortion”, “Terminus”, “Sacred
Mirrors”, and “The Earth Mother” - a legend in our time taken
far too soon'. Hahahahaha....”

VI. The Map to Our Sorrows

Madness is what we thrive on
in these times/ Stretching tendrils to the stars/From nearer suns and distant
climes/ It is the map to our sorrows, writ large/ A holocaust of our soul/ It
feeds us and it drains us/A divine madness lovingly
wrought/ It always will sustain us/A broken id/ A carnivale of
illuminationBut in the dark in the pale/
In this twisted shadow nation/We merge as we dissolve/ A
voice in mercurial pain/Asks us once/ how much of
what we are yet remains?

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